Hi John. John Scott - 28.05.20, 23:34:46 CEST: > (cc'ing packaging list in case anyone there knows or is working on it) > On Thursday, May 28, 2020 7:15:24 AM EDT Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Fair enough. I was not able to use it as a XMPP client reliably. > > I am in exactly the same boat as you. Never got Kopete or KDE > Telepathy to work with XMPP, granted KTp as packaged is pretty old > ATM. There is a new XMPP-centric KDE program called Kaidan [1] that > looks very nice.
Yeah, I am aware of it. It looks nice and modern, you can even install it as a Flatpak. However so far as to my knowledge it has no OMEMO encryption yet. That is a no-go for me. And while there are nice updated versions of PSI Plus in Debian experimental, I again went back to dino-im… it is not great UI wise, especially as it insists of opening images I receive by chat with Imagemagick which has a GUI that IMHO should not be thrown at mere mortals…¹ however, that may just be cause its GTK and such does not use the standard applications set for KDE applications. But I did not find where to set which application it shall use. I hope I do not have to install GNOME Settings to change that. PSI Plus? Well it appears to have a ton of features, but it does not work with one of my XMPP accounts and… its a ton of complexity. I don't really understand this software. Kopete and especially KDE Telepathy are quite nice approaches. It is a pity that those seem to be abandoned. But yeah, it may make sense to have something that does not try to support every chat protocol in existence. As far as I see about what currently matters, support IRC, XMPP and Matrix… and be done with it. Especially skip all the proprietary platforms like ICQ – is thing still a thing? – and AOL and what not. [1] On command line it can be really handy, but please leave me alone with that GUI. Thanks, -- Martin